Stenberg and Bruning are not Lugar, Specter (you spelled his name wrong) Lieberman (you spelled his name wrong) or Kerry. Why you are rambling, I do not know.
Palin has a history of endorsing women even though more conservative men are in the race.
When she endorsed Karen Handel over Nathan Deal in Georgia, I lost much respect for her. Karen Handel was quite liberal on many important social issues, and had associations with radical homosexuals, yet that didn’t stop Sarah from endorsing her.
Stenberg and Bruning are not Lugar.
Oh true. Stenberg has been in this dog race a few times and can’t seem to cross the finish line. He gets a certain percentage and just stays there. He can win a minor post but the big positions? Close but no cigar.
Bruning? Train wreck with a 411 which would make the National DNC and Bob Kerry salivate with envy. The TPX made a big mistake in endorsing him. Their latest rally in Omaha was a snooze fest.
Well, back in 2010 it made perfect sense to endorse as many women for Governor and Senate as possible in anticipation of all of them then endorsing her for President.
She was a former woman Governor, and beyond question the most famous female political figure in the party, so was it really a surprise that she’d be endorsing other women candidates?
In fact, you could say it was actually a selfless move and the wrong move politically. The more women in the party the less important and less powerful she is. Back in 2008 she was the only pro-life woman in either a Governorship or in the Senate, so when McCain needed a female VP she was the only possibility. However, since then she’s endorsed and supported Ayotte in NH, Haley in SC, Martinez in NM, Fallin in NM, Brewer in AZ. That’s 5 more prolife women. So, she’s only hurting her own cause by putting more competition out there.
If you’ll notice, you don’t really see Obama out there supporting other black guys, and he even helped to force Burris out in IL. He wants to make sure he’s the only black guy in the party. You never really saw Hillary out there supporting other dem women, either.
If she knew back in 2010 she wans’t going ot run for President then it’s a bit more curious. But at the time, building up a cadre of women Governors and Senators who could be counted on for support down the road was a perfectly logical move. Especially in a key conservative and GOP state like GA that votes on Super Tuesday. She’d have had Haley in SC and Handel in GA both in her corner and that’d be a pretty good duo to have and it would have put her in a very advantageous position.
As I recall, that Deal-Handel primary ended up being decided by less than 1/2 of 1% so it was very close.
Don't care about spelling right - I care about who Palin endorses.